Originally Posted By Yookeroo Reminds me of the classic scene from Taxi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HvmtbZzA40
Originally Posted By basil fan Buzz or no buzz, The Good Dinosaur just doesn't look very appealing. Zootopia looks fun and cute. Disney Trivia Quiz <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/dquiz.html">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...uiz.html</a>
Originally Posted By Dabob2 I know, I know - Rotten Tomatoes' system of pass/fail is inherently flawed. Still... Zootopia sits at 99% (!) <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/zootopia/">http://www.rottentomatoes.com/...ootopia/</a> I had no particular desire to see this one... and now I kinda wanna.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "I know, I know - Rotten Tomatoes' system of pass/fail is inherently flawed." You can "fix" the flaw by looking at the average rating right under the Tomatometer.
Originally Posted By mawnck Sigh ... METACRITIC guys, METACRITIC. Reviews are assigned an actual score, not just a yes or no. Gives a much more accurate assessment of the movie, especially when it's one that the critics all agree is just "pretty good". Zootopia has an 81 as of this writing. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.metacritic.com/movie/zootopia">http://www.metacritic.com/movie/zootopia</a>
Originally Posted By Yookeroo I should've pointed out that the average rating is 8/10. Not quite 99%, but still pretty darn good.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 At either RT or MC, I always take the score they assign as just a starting point. Then I read the critics I tend to respect.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Same as RottenTomatoes<< Unless things have changed - and I just checked and it looks like they haven't - RT only assigns "positive" or "negative" to each review. The Tomatometer score is a simple percentage of positives to negatives. Thus a movie that everyone is positively raving abut could (and does) get the same score as one that has only lukewarm "it's OK I guess" reviews. Metacritic assigns a 1-to-100 score to EACH REVIEW and then takes an average. Thus, Zootopia gets an 81 from MC (tied with "The Secret of Kells") and a 98 from RT (one notch higher than "Spirited Away"). Haven't seen Zootopia yet, but I'm betting Metacritic has it right.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo Look again. Right under the Tomatometer rating is an average rating. Zootopia is 8/10. Literally the line right under the score.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance TOMATOMETER 98% Average Rating: 8/10 Reviews Counted: 127 Fresh: 125 Rotten: 2
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Critics Consensus: The brilliantly well-rounded Zootopia offers a thoughtful, inclusive message that's as rich and timely as its sumptuously state-of-the-art animation -- all while remaining fast and funny enough to keep younger viewers entertained.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance AUDIENCE SCORE 95% liked it Average Rating: 4.5/5 User Ratings: 22,020
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance I agree. I hope Finding Dory will be good. For some reason I don't have a lot of hope for it. I'm hoping it will surprise me though.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I saw Zootopia yesterday and enjoyed it. It had a great story, but wasn't quite as "fun" as I had anticipated. There were occasional intense scenes, and the little girls in my row (probably about 2 & 4 years old) spent the entire time terrified (though it really didn't seem that scary to any of the other children in the theater) Unsurprisingly, there's a lot more to the plot than what we've seen in previews. It seemed like most of the funny bits were included in the previews, so I was a little disappointed that we didn't get more animal-based humor. There were a lot of modern things that I could have done without (pretty much anything involving Gazelle, though toward the end it sort of had a purpose) As a random aside, I'm pretty sure that Judy's non-police outfit is the same as Brer Rabbit's outfit. Maybe it only reminded me of it because they're both rabbits, but it did seem suspiciously similar Surprisingly, this is probably going to be the boldest wide-release film of the year. How many other studios could do a feel good "we're all the same, yet have our unique differences" story that revolves around a police officer that was palatable to audiences of all ages? There were a couple times that it got *this* close to being preachy, but it always backed down. It's the sort of story that could really only be told in animation, and it used the medium very well From what I saw, the MetaCritic score was more accurate than the Rotten Tomatoes one. It was a good movie, but not perfect
